All four causes work together to facilitate the technology’s occasioning (it’s coming onto being in its specific context)

Plato says: “every occasion for whatever passes over and goes forward into presencing from that which is not presencing is poiesis, is bringing-forth” (pg 10)

“Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence [West] in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.” (pg 13)

So what’s the problem?

Modern technology is different because the type if revealing is different.

“What is modern technology? It too is a revealing. Only when we allow our attention to rest on this fundamental characteristic does that which is new in modern technology show itself to us. [paragraph break ] And yet the revealing that holds sway throughout modern technology does not unfold into a bringing-forth in the sense of poiesis. The revealing that rules in modern technology is a chal­lenging [Herausfordern], which puts to nature the unreasonable demand that it supply energy that can be extracted and stored as such. [ … ] The earth now reveals itself as a coal mining dis­trict, the soil as a mineral deposit.” (14)

This type of revealing is based on challenging. Whereas the old-school peasant “challenge the soil of the field” (15), new technologies demand that the materials in the earth (like coal) are always ready for use as “it is stockpiled; that is, it is on call, ready to deliver the sun’s warmth that is stored in it” (15)

H calls this standing-reserve

Since we do this, we tend to see the objects as only the resources contained in them, as an ordering revealing

in other words: “The unconcealment of the unconcealed has already come to pass whenever it calls man forth into the modes of revealing allotted to him. When man, in his way, from within unconcealment reveals that which presences, he merely responds to the call of unconcealment even when he contradicts it. Thus when man, investigating, observing, ensnares nature as an area of his own conceiving, he has already been claimed by a way of revealing that challenges him to approach nature as an object of research, until even the object disappears into the objectlessness of standing-reserve” (19).

H calls this propensity in humans enframing.

“Enframing means the gathering together of that setting-upon which sets upon man, i.e., challenges him forth, to reveal the real, in the mode of ordering, as standing-reserve. Enframing means that way of revealing which holds sway in the essence of modern technology and which is itself nothing technological” (20).

OR “the way in which the real reveals itself as standing-reserve” (23)

OR “Enframing is the gathering together that belongs to that setting-upon which sets upon man and puts him in position to reveal the real, in the mode of ordering, as standing-reserve” (24)

And Enframing is the essence of modern technology

DANGER!

Enframing creates a situation wherein humans see the world around around them as a “calculable complex of the effects of forces” (26). We see only resources standing-reserve but no objects in and of themselves.

When we don;t see the objects as they are (in their truth), we fall for the illusion that humans are the only things around worth noting…

“as soon as what is unconcealed no longer concerns man even as object, but does so, rather, exclusively as standing-reserve [ … ] he comes to the point where he himself will have to be taken as standing-reserve. Meanwhile man … exalts himself to the posture of lord of the earth. [ … ] This illusion gives rise in turn to one final delusion: It seems as though man everywhere and always encounters only himself” (26-27).

AND “the challenging Enframing not only conceals a former way of revealing, bringing-forth, but it conceals revealing itself and with it That wherein concealment, i.e., truth, comes to pass” (27)

“The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could de denied him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth” (28).

(yeah, but wtf is ‘truth,’ H?)

And FINALLY— “The coming to presence of technology threatens revealing, threatens it with the possibility that all revealing will be con­sumed in ordering and that everything will present itself only in the unconcealedness of standing-reserve” (33).

All is not lost

“So long as we represent technology as an instrument we remain held fast in the will to master it. We press on past the essence of technology. [ paragraph break ] When, however, we ask how the instrumental comes to presence as a kind of causality, then we experience the coming to presence as the destining of a revealing” (32).

Techne also used to mean “art,” so maybe art will be the ultimate savior?

And who knows, maybe “the frenziedness of technology may entrench itself every­ where to such an extent that someday, throughout everything technological, the essence of technology may come to presence in the coming-to-pass of truth” (35).

Techne—”techne is the name not only for the activities and skills of the craftsman, but also for the arts of the mind and the fine arts. Techne belongs to bringing-forth, to poiesis; it is something poietic. [paragraph break ] The other point that we should observe with regard to techne is even more important. From earliest times until Plato the word techne is linked with the word episteme. Both words are names for knowing in the widest sense. They mean to be entirely at home in something, to understand and be expert in it.” [ … ] “It is as revealing, and not as manufactur­ing, that techne is a bringing-forth.” (pg 13)

Page 38, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: ” Allways of thinking, more or less perceptibly, lead through language in a manner that is extraordinary. We shall be questioning con­cerning technology, and in so doing we should like to preparea free relationship to it. The relationship will be free if it opens our human existence to the essence of technology.1″

Page 39, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “essence of technology is by no means any­thing technological. Thus we shall never experience our relation­ship to the essence of technology so long as we merely conceiveand push forward the technological, put up with it, or evade it. Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology,whether we passionately affirm or deny it.”

Page 39, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: ” But we are deliveredover to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as some­thing neutral; for this conception of it,2 to which today we par­ticularly like to do homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology. ”

Page 39, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: ” Everyone knows the two statements that answer our question. One says : Technology is a means to an end. The other says: Technology is a human activity. The two definitions of technology belong together. For to posit ends and procure and utilize the means to them is a humanactivity. ”

Page 39, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The manufacture and utilization of equipment, tools, and machines, the manufactured and used things themselves, and the needs and ends that they serve, all belong to what tech-”

Page 40, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The current conception of technology, according to which it is a means and a human activity, can therefore be called the in­ strumental and anthropological definition of technology.”

Page 40, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The instrumental definition of technology is indeed so uncannily correct that it even holds for modern technology, of which, iil other respects, we maintain with some justification that it is, in contrast to the older handwork technology, some­ thing completely diHerent and therefore new. Even the power plant with its turbines and generators is a man-made means to an end established by man. Even the jet aircraft and the high­ frequency apparatus are means to ends.”

Page 40, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “A radar station is of course less simple than a weather vane. To be sure, the construc­ tion of a high-frequency apparatus requires the interlocking of various processes of technical-industrial production.”

Page 40, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “But this much remains correct : modern technology too is a means to an end.”

Page 40, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “That is why the instrumental conception of technology conditions every attempt to bring man into the right relation to technology. Everything depends on our manipulating technology in the proper manner as a means. We will, as we say, Uget” technology “spiritually in hand.” We will master it. The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control.”

Page 40, Underline (Blue):
Content: “We will master it. The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control.”

Page 41, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: ” themerely correct is not yet the true. Only the true brings us into a free relationship with that which concerns us from out of its essence.”

Page 41, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Accordingly, the correct instrumental definition of tech­ nology still does not show us technology’s essence.”

Page 41, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: ” We must ask: What is the instru­mental itself? Within what do such things as means and endbelong? ”

Page 41, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “For centuries philosophy has taught that there are four causes:(1) the causa materialis, the material, the matter out of which, for example, a silver chalice is made; (2) the causa formalis, the form, the shape into which the material enters; (3) the causafi nalis, the end, for example, the sacrificial rite in relation towhich the chalice required is determined as to its form and mat­ter; (4) the causa efficiens, which brings about the effect that isthe fi nished, actual chalice, in this instance, the silversmith. What technology is, when represented as a means, discloses itself when we trace instrumentality back to fourfold causality. ”

Page 42, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “whence does it come that the causal character of the four causes is so unifiedly determined that they belong together?”

Page 42, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “So long as we do not allow ourselves to go into these ques­tions, causality, and with it instrumentality, and with the latterthe accepted definition of technology, remain obscure andgroundless. ”

Page 42, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The four causes are the ways, all belonging at once to each other, of being responsible for something else.”

Page 42, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “An example can clarify this. Silver is that out of which the silver chalice is made. As this matter (hyle), it is co-responsible for the chalice.”

Page 42, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The chalice is indebted to, i.e., owes thanks to, the silver for that out of which it consists.”

Page 42, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: ” As a chalice, that which is indebted to the silver appearsin the aspect of a chalice and not in that of a brooch or a ring. Thus the sacrificial vessel is at the same time indebted to theaspect (eidos) of chaliceness.”

Page 43, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “a third that is above all responsible forthe sacrificial vessel. It is that which in advance confines the chalice within the realm of consecration and bestowal.6 Through this the chalice is circumscribed as sacrificial vessel.”

Page 43, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “That which gives bounds, that which completes, in this sense is called in Greek telos, which is all too often translated as “aim” or “purpose/’ and so misinterpreted. The telos is responsible for what as matter and for what as aspect are together co-responsible for the sacrificial vessel.”

Page 43, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “finally there is a fourth participant in the responsibility for the finished sacrificial vessel’s lying before us ready for use, i.e., the silversmith-but not at all because he, in working, brings about the fi nished sacrificial chalice as if it were the effect of a making; the silversmith is not a causa efficiens.”

Page 43, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The silversmith is co-responsible as that from whence the sacrificial vessel’s bringing forth and resting-in-self take and retain their fi rst departure.”

Page 43, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The three previously mentioned ways of being responsible owe thanks to the pondering of the silver­ smith for the “that” and the “how” of their coming into appear­ ance and into play for the production of the sacrificial vessel.”

Page 44, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Today we are too easily inclined either to understand being responsible and being indebted moralistically as a lapse, or else to construe them in terms of effecting. In either case we bar to ourselves the way to the primal meaning of that which is later called causality.”

Page 44, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “According to our example, they are responsible for thesilver chalice’s lying ready before us as a sacrificial vessel. Lyingbefore and lying ready (hypokeisthai) characterize the presencing of something that presences. ”

Page 44, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “They set it free to that place and so start it on its way, namely, into its complete arrival.”

Page 44, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The prin­ cipal characteristic of being responsible is this starting something on its way into arrival.”

Page 44, Note (Orange):
Facilitating a thing’s thinging?

Page 45, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “we now give this verb “to occasion” a more inclusive meaning, so that it now is the name for the essence of causality thought as the Greeks thought it. But in what, then, does the playing in unison of the four ways of occasioning play?”

Page 45, Underline (Blue):
Content: “But in what, then, does the playing in unison of the four ways of occasioning play? They let what is not yet present arrive intopresencing. Accordingly, they are unifiedly ruled over by a bringing that brings what presences into appearance. ”

Page 45, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: ” They let what is not yet present arrive intopresencing. Accordingly, they are unifiedly ruled over by a bringing that brings what presences into appearance. ”

Page 45, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Plato tells us what this bringing is in a sentence from the Symposium (20sb) “Every occasion for whatever passes over and goes forward into presencing from that which is not presencing is poiesis, is bringing-forth”

Page 45, Highlight (Yellow):
Content: “poiesis,”

Page 45, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: ” Physis also, the arising of something from out of itself, is a bringing-forth, poiesis. Physis is indeedpoiesis in the highest sense. ”

Page 46, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Occasioning has to do with the presencing [Anwesen] of that which at any given time comes to appearance in bringing-forth.”

Page 47, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “What has the essence of technology to do with revealing? Theanswer: everything.”

Page 47, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth.12”

Page 47, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “”technology” stems from the Greek. Technikon means that which belongs to techne. We must observe”

Page 48, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “two things with respect to the meaning of this word. One is that techne is the name not only for the activities and skills of thecraftsman, but also for the arts of the mind and the fi ne arts. T echne belongs to bringing-forth, to poiesis; it is somethingpoietic. The other point that we should observe with regard to techneis even more important. From earliest times until Plato the word techne is linked with the word episteme. Both words are names for knowing in the widest sense. They mean to be entirely at home in something, to understand and be expert in it. ”

Page 48, Highlight (Yellow):
Content: “techne”

Page 48, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: ” Techne is a mode of aletheuein. It reveals whateverdoes not bring itself forth and does not yet lie here before us, whatever can look and turn out now one way and now another. ”

Page 48, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “It is as revealing, and not as manufactur­ ing, that techne is a bringing-forth.”

Page 48, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “one can object that it indeed holds for Greekthought and that at best it might apply to the techniques of the handcraftsman, but that it simply does not fit modern machine-powered technology. And it is precisely the latter and ”

Page 49, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “it alone that is the disturbing thing, that moves us to ask the question concerning technology per se.”

Page 49, Stamp (Quote!)

Page 49, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “What is modern technology? It too is a revealing. Only when we allow our attention to rest on this fundamental characteristic does that which is new in modern technology show itself to us.”

Page 49, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “And yet the revealing that holds sway throughout modern technology does not unfold into a bringing-forth in the sense of poiesis.”

Page 49, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: ” The revealing that rules in modern technology is a chal­lenging [Herausfordern],13 which puts to nature the unreasonable demand that it supply energy that can be extracted and stored as such. ”

Page 50, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The work of the peasant does not challenge the soil of the fi eld. the cultivation of the field has come underthe grip of another kind of setting-in-order, which sets upon[stellt] natureY It sets upon it in the sense of challenging it. Agriculture is now the mechanized food industry. Air is now setupon to yield nitrogen, the earth to yield ore, ore to yielduranium, for example; uranium is set upon to yield atomicenergy, which can be released either for destruction or for peace­ful use. ”

Page 50, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: ” It is stockpiled; that is, it is on call,ready to deliver the sun’s warmth that is stored in it. ”

Page 51, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The hydroelectric plant is not built into the Rhine River as was the old wooden bridge that joined bank with bank for hundreds of years. Rather the river is dammed up into the power plant. What the river is now, namely, a water power supplier, derives from out of the essence of the power station.”

Page 51, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The revealing that rules throughout modern technology has the character of a setting-upon, in the sense of a challenging­ forth.”

Page 51, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “That challenging happens in that the energy concealed in nature is unlocked, what is unlocked is transformed, what is transformed is stored up, what is stored up is, in turn, distributed, and what is distributed is switched about ever anew.”

Page 51, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Regulating and securing even become the chief characteristics of the challenging revealing.”

Page 52, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Whatever stands by in the sense of standing-reserve no longer stands over against us as object.”

Page 52, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Yet an airliner that stands on the runway is surely an object. it conceals itself as to what and how it is. Revealed, it stands on the taxi strip only as standing-reserve, inasmuch as it is ordered to en­ sure the possibility of transportation.”

Page 53, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Who accomplishes the challenging setting-upon through which what we call the real is revealed as standing-reserve? Obviously, man.”

Page 53, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “But man does not have control over un­ concealment itself, in which at any given time the real shows itself or withdraws. The fact that the real has been showingitself in the light of Ideas ever since the time of Plato, Plato didnot bring about. The thinker only responded to what addresseditself to him.”

Page 53, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Only to the extent that man for his part is already challenged to exploit the energies of nature can this ordering revealing happen.”

Page 53, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “If man is challenged, ordered, to do this, then does not man himself belong even more originally than nature within the standing-reserve? The forester who, in the wood, measures the felled timber and to all appearances walks the same forest path in the same way as did his grandfather is today commanded by profit-making in the lumber industry, whether he knows it or not.”

Page 53, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: ” Since man drives tech­nology forward, he takes part in ordering as a way of revealing. But the un concealment itself, within which ordering unfolds, is never a human handiwork, any more than is the realm throughwhich man is already passing every time he as a subject relates to an object. ”

Page 53, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Wherever man opens his eyes and ears, unlocks his heart, and gives himself over to meditating”

Page 54, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The unconcealment of the unconcealed has already come to pass whenever it calls man forth into the modes of revealing allotted to him.”

Page 54, Underline (Blue):
Content: “The unconcealment of the unconcealed has already come to pass whenever it calls man forth into the modes of revealing allotted to him.”

Page 54, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “When man, in his way, from within unconcealmentreveals that which presences, he merely responds to the call ofunconcealment even when he contradicts it. ”

Page 54, Underline (Blue):
Content: “When man, in his way, from within unconcealment reveals that which presences, he merely responds to the call of unconcealment even when he contradicts it.”

Page 54, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Thus when man,investigating, observing, ensnares nature as an area of his ownconceiving, he has already been claimed by a way of revealing that challenges him to approach nature as an object of research, until even the object disappears into the objectlessness ofstanding-reserve. ”

Page 54, Underline (Blue):
Content: “Thus when man,investigating, observing, ensnares nature as an area of his ownconceiving, he has already been claimed by a way of revealing that challenges him to approach nature as an object of research, until even the object disappears into the objectlessness ofstanding-reserve. ”

Page 54, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Modern technology as an ordering revealing is, then, no merely human doing. Therefore we must take that challenging that sets upon man to order the real as standing-reserve in accordance with the way in which it shows itself. That challenging gathers man into ordering. This gathering concentrates man upon or­ dering the real as standing-reserve. We now name that challenging claim which gathers manthither to order the self-revealing as standing-reserve: FlGe-stell”[En framing] .17 ”

Page 55, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Enframing means the gathering together of that setting-uponwhich sets upon man, i.e., challenges him forth, to reveal the real, in the mode of ordering, as standing-reserve. Enframing means that way of revealing which holds sway in the essence of modern technology and which is itself nothing technological. ”

Page 55, Highlight (Yellow):
Content: “Enframing”

Page 55, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “all those things that are so familiar to us and are standard parts of an assembly, such as rods, pistons, and chassis, belong to the technological. The assembly itself, how­ ever, together with the aforementioned stockparts, falls within”

Page 56, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “the sphere of technological activity; and this activity always merely responds to the challenge of Enframing, but it nevercomprises Enframing itself or brings it about.”

Page 56, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “man in the technological ageis, in a particularly striking way, challenged forth into revealing. That revealing concerns nature, above all, as the chief storehouseof the standing energy reserve Because theory, sets nature up to exhibit itself as a coherence of forces calculable in advance, it therefore orders its experiments precisely for the purpose of asking whether and how nature reports itself when set up in this way.”

Page 57, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The modern physical theory of nature prepares the way first not simply for technology but for the essence of modern tech­ nology.”

Page 57, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: ” The Greek thinkers already knew of this when theysaid: That which is earlier with regard to the arising that holdssway becomes manifest to us men only later. That which is primally early shows itself only ultimately to men.20″

Page 57, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Chronologically speaking, modern physical science begins in the seventeenth century. In contrast, machine-power technology develops only in the second half of the eighteenth century. But modern technology, which for chronological reckoning is the later, is, from the point of view of the essence holding sway within it, the historically earlier.”

Page 58, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Because the essence of modern technology lies in Enframing, modern technology must employ exact physical science. Throughits so doing, the deceptive illusion arises that modern technology is applied physical science. This illusion can maintain itself only so long as neither the essential origin of modern science nor indeed the essence of modern technology is adequately found out through questioning. ”

Page 58, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “We are questioning concerning technology in order to bring to light our relationship to its essence. The essence of modern tech­ nology shows itself in what we call Enframing.”

Page 58, Underline (Blue):
Content: “We are questioning concerning technology in order to bring to light our relationship to its essence. The essence of modern tech­ nology shows itself in what we call Enframing.”

Page 58, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Where do we find ourselves brought to, if now we think one step further regarding what Enframing itself actually is? It is nothing technological, nothing on the order of a machine. It is the way in which the real reveals itself as standing-reserve.”

Page 58, Underline (Blue):
Content: “Enframing is the way in which the real reveals itself as standing-reserve.”

Page 59, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Enframing is the gathering together that belongs to thatsetting-upon which sets upon man and puts him in position toreveal the real, in the mode of ordering, as standing-reserve. ”

Page 59, Underline (Blue):
Content: “Enframing is the gathering together that belongs to thatsetting-upon which sets upon man and puts him in position toreveal the real, in the mode of ordering, as standing-reserve. ”

Page 59, Highlight (Yellow):
Content: “Enframing”

Page 59, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “As the one who is challenged forth in this way, man stands within the essential realm of Enframing.”

Page 59, Underline (Blue):
Content: “As the one who is challenged forth in this way, man stands within the essential realm of Enframing.”

Page 59, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “It is from out of this destining that the essence of all history [Geschichte] is determined.”

Page 59, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Enframing, as a challenging-forth into ordering, sends into a way of revealing. Enframing is an ordaining of destining, as is”

Page 59, Underline (Blue):
Content: “Enframing, as a challenging-forth into ordering, sends into a way of revealing. Enframing is an ordaining of destining, as is”

Page 60, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “every way of revealing. Bringing-forth, poiesis, is also a destining in this sense.”

Page 60, Underline (Blue):
Content: “every way of revealing. Bringing-forth, poiesis, is also a destining in this sense.”

Page 60, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “destining is never a fate that compels. For man becomes truly free only insofar as he belongs to the realm of destining and so becomes one who listens and hears [Horender] , and not one who is simply constrained to obey [Horiger] .”

Page 60, Note (Orange):
Oh. I guess.

Page 60, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The essence of modern technology lies in Enframing. Enfram­ ing belongs within the destining of revealing. These sentences express something different from the talk that we hear more frequently, to the effect that technology is the fate of our age, where “fate” means the inevitableness of an unalterable course.”

Page 61, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “when we once open ourselves expressly to the essence of technology, we fi nd ourselves un­ expectedly taken into a freeing claim.”

Page 61, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The essence of technology lies in Enframing. Its holding sway belongs within destining. Since destining at any given time starts man on a way of revealing, man, thus under way, is continually approaching the brink of the possibility of pursuing and pushing forward nothing but what is revealed in ordering, and of deriv­ ing all his standards on this basis.”

Page 61, Underline (Blue):
Content: “Since destining at any given time starts man on a way of revealing, man, thus under way, is continually approaching the brink of the possibility of pursuing and pushing forward nothing but what is revealed in ordering, and of deriv­ ing all his standards on this basis.”

Page 61, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “In whatever way the destining of revealing may hold sway, the unconcealment in which everything that is shows itself at any given time harbors the danger that man may quail at the un­ concealed and may misinterpret it.”

Page 61, Underline (Blue):
Content: “In whatever way the destining of revealing may hold sway, the unconcealment in which everything that is shows itself atany given time harbors the danger that man may quail at the un­concealed and may misinterpret it. ”

Page 61, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “In a similar way the unconcealment in accordance with which nature presents itself as a calculable complex of the effects of forces can indeed permit correct determinations i but precisely through these successes the danger can remain that in the midst of all that is correct the true will withdraw.”

Page 61, Stamp (Quote!)

Page 61, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The destining of revealing is in itself not just any danger, but danger as such.”

Page 61, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “This danger attests itself to us in two ways. As soon as what is unconcealed no longer concerns man even as”

Page 62, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “object, but does so, rather, exclusively as standing-reserve, andman in the midst of objectlessness is nothing but the orderer ofthe standing-reserve, then he comes to the very brink of it precipitous fall; that is, he comes to the point where he himself will have to be taken as standing-reserve. Meanwhile man, pre­cisely as the one so threatened, exalts himself to the posture of lord of the earth. In this way the impression comes to prevail thateverything man encounters exists only insofar as it is his con­struct. This illusion gives rise in turn to one final delusion: It seems as though man everywhere and always encounters only himself. In truth, however, precisely nowhere does man today any longer encounter himself, i.e., his essence. Man stands so de­cisively in attendance on the challenging-forth of Enframing thathe does not apprehend Enframing as a claim, that he fails to seehimself as the one spoken to, and hence also fails in every wayto hear in what respect he ek-sists, from out of his essence, in the realm of an exhortation or address, and thus can never encounteronly himself. ”

Page 62, Underline (Blue):
Content: “object, but does so, rather, exclusively as standing-reserve, he comes to the point where he himself will have to be taken as standing-reserve. Meanwhile man, exalts himself to the posture of lord of the earth.”

Page 62, Stamp (Star (Frame, Red))

Page 62, Underline (Blue):
Content: “This illusion gives rise in turn to one final delusion: It seems as though man everywhere and always encounters only himself.”

Page 62, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “As a destining, it banishes man into that kind of revealing which is an ordering. Where this ordering holds sway, it drives out every other possi-bility of revealing.”

Page 62, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “the challenging Enframing not only conceals a former way of revealing, bringing-forth, but it conceals revealing itself and with it That wherein unconcealment, i.e., truth, comes to pass.”

Page 62, Underline (Blue):
Content: “the challenging Enframing not only conceals a former way of revealing, bringing-forth, but it conceals revealing itself and with it That wherein unconcealment, i.e., truth, comes to pass.”

Page 62, Note (Orange):
So enframing, ie viewing things as their raw material components (standing reserve) does not allow the material to reveal itself (poiesis?) and therefore is not revealing the truth
(but wtf is the truth, H?)

Page 63, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Enframing blocks the shining-forth and holding-sway of truth. The destinil1g that sends into ordering is consequently the ex­treme q.afiger. ”

Page 63, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: ” What is dangerous is not technology. There is nod<::m6nry of technology, but rather there is the mystery of its: essence. The essence of technology, as a destining of revealing, isthe danger. The transformed meaning of the word “Enframing”will perhaps become somewhat more familiar to us now if wethink Enframing in the sense of destining and danger. ”

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Page 63, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth.”

Page 63, Underline (Blue):
Content: “The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth.”

Page 63, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “If the essence of technology, Enframing, is the extreme danger, and if there is truth in H6lderlin’s words, then the rule of Enframing cannot exhaust itself solely in blocking all lighting-up of every revealing, all appearing of truth. Rather, precisely the essence of technology must harbor in itself the growth of the saving power. But in that case, might not an adequate look into what Enframing is as a destining of revealing bring into appear­ance the saving power in its arising? ”

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Page 64, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “But how shall we behold the saving power in the essence of technology so long as we do not consider in what sense of “essence” it is that Enframing is actually the essence of tech­ nology?”

Page 64, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “For example, what pertains to all kinds of trees-oaks, beeches, birches, firs-is the same “treeness.””

Page 64, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: ” Enframing is never the essence of technology in the sense of a genus. Enframing is a way of revealing having the character ofdestining, namely, the way that challenges forth.”

Page 64, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The revealing that brings forth (poiesis) is also a way that has the character of destining.”

Page 64, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The challenging reveal-”

Page 65, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “ing has its origin as a destining in bringing-forth. But at thesame time Enframing, in a way characteristic of a destining, blocks poiesis.”

Page 65, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Thus Enframing, as a destining of revealing, is indeed the essence of technology, but never in the sense of genus andessentia. If we pay heed to this, something astounding strikes us: It is technology itself that makes the demand on us to think in another way what is usually understood by “essence.” But in what way? ”

Page 65, Underline (Blue):
Content: “Thus Enframing, as a destining of revealing, is indeed the essence of technology, but never in the sense of genus andessentia. ”

Page 66, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “And if we now ponder morecarefully than we did before what it is that actually endures and perhaps alone endures, we may venture to say: Only what is granted endures. That which endures primally out of the earliestbeginning is what grants.25”

Page 66, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “As the essencing of technology, Enframing is that which en­ dures.”

Page 66, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “accordingto everything that has been said, Enframing is, rather, a destiningthat gathers together into the revealing that challenges forth. Challenging is anything but a granting. 50 it seems, so long as we do not notice that the challenging-forth into the ordering of the real as standing-reserve still remains a destining that starts man upon a way of revealing.”

Page 67, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Thus the coming to presence of technology harbors in itself what we least suspect, the possible arising of the saving power.”

Page 67, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Everything, then, depends upon this: arising and that, recollecting, we watch over it. How can this happen? Above all through our catching sight of what comes to presence in technology, instead of merely staring at the tech­ nologicarSo”

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Page 67, Stamp (Star (Frame, Red))

Page 67, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “So long as we represent technology as an instrument,we remain held fast in the will to master it. We press on pastthe essence of technology.”

Page 67, Underline (Blue):
Content: “So long as we represent technology as an instrument,we remain held fast in the will to master it. We press on pastthe essence of technology.”

Page 67, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “When, however, we ask how the instrumental comes to pres­ ence as a kind of causality, then we experience this coming to presence as the destining of a revealing.”

Page 67, Underline (Blue):
Content: “When, however, we ask how the instrumental comes to pres­ ence as a kind of causality, then we experience this coming to presence as the destining of a revealing.”

Page 67, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “When we consider, finally, that the coming to presence of the essence of technology comes to pass in the granting that needs and uses man so that he may share in revealing, then the follow­ ing becomes clear:”

Page 68, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The essence of technology is in a lofty sense ambiguous. Suchambiguity points to the mystery of all revealing, i.e., of truth. On the one hand, Enframing challenges forth into the frenzied­ness of ordering that blocks every view into the coming-to-passof revealing and so radically endangers the relation to the essenceof truth. On the other hand, Enframing comes to pass for its part in the granting that lets man endure-as yet unexperienced, but per­haps more experienced in the future-that he may be the one who is needed and used for the safekeeping of the coming to presence of truth.:n Thus does the arising of the saving power appear. ”

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Page 68, Stamp (Star (Frame, Red))

Page 68, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “The coming to presence of technology threatens revealing, threatens it with the possibility that all revealing will be con­ sumed in ordering and that everything will present itself only in the unconcealedness of standing-reserve.”

Page 68, Underline (Blue):
Content: “The coming to presence of technology threatens revealing, threatens it with the possibility that all revealing will be con­ sumed in ordering and that everything will present itself only in the unconcealedness of standing-reserve.”

Page 69, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “all saving power must be of a higher essence than what is en­ dangered, though at the same time kindred to it.”

Page 69, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “There was a time when it was not technology alone that borethe name techne. Once that revealing that brings forth truth intothe splendor of radiant appearing also was called techne.”

Page 69, Stamp (Quote!)

Page 69, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Once there was a time when the bringing-forth of the true into the beautiful was called techne. And the poiesis of the fine arts also was called techne.”

Page 70, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Whether art may be granted this highest possibility of its essence in the midst of the extreme danger, no one can tell. Yet we can be astounded. Before what? Before this other possibility: that the frenziedness of technology may entrench itself every­ where to such an extent that someday, throughout everything technological, the essence of technology may come to presence in the coming-to-pass of truth.”

Page 70, Underline (Blue):
Content: “Whether art may be granted this highest possibility of its essence in the midst of the extreme danger, no one can tell. Yet we can be astounded. Before what? Before this other possibility: that the frenziedness of technology may entrench itself every­ where to such an extent that someday, throughout everything technological, the essence of technology may come to presence in the coming-to-pass of truth.”

Page 70, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Such a realm is art. But certainly only if reflection on art, for its part, does not shut its eyes to the constellation of truth after which we are questioning.”

Page 70, Highlight (Cyan):
Content: “Thus questioning, we bear witness to the crisis that in our sheer preoccupation with technology we do not yet experience the coming to presence of technology, that in our sheer aesthetic­ mindedness we no longer guard and preserve the coming to presence of art. Yet the more questioningly we ponder the es­ sence of technology, the more mysterious the essence of art becomes. The closer we come to the danger, the more brightly do the ways into the saving power begin to shine and the more question­ ing we become. For questioning is the piety of thought.”